Musa emasculata de Briey var. emasculata

Häkkinen, Markku & Väre, Henry, 2008, Typification and check-list of Musa L. names (Musaceae) with nomenclatural notes, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 63-112 : 75

75. Musa emasculata de Briey var. emasculata

in De Wildeman, Mission de Briey Mayumbé : 306 (1920). — Type: De Wildeman, Mission de Briey Mayumbé: pl. VII fig. 5 “ var. lomba ” (1920) (lecto-, here designated) .

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This is a banana cultivar described from the Belgian Congo. According to the diagnosis and figure it is seedless. Seeds are not mentioned in the diagnosis in any case concerning M. emasculata and its varieties. Variety emasculata was not drawn or diagnosed, so we propose that var. lomba represents the type variant.